Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro roundly denounced the Organization of American States as "the whorehouse of imperialism." His acerbic judgment was presumably reinforced by the diplomatic and trade quarantine imposed on Cuba by the OAS three years later. Now, though, Castro may well be in a mind to revise his opinion. Last week OAS members- notably Peru, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia-were lobbying for an end to the economic and political isolation of Cuba. When the foreign ministers of the organization meet in Quito this week, it is virtually certain that the required two-thirds majority...
...Malle focuses not on great events themselves but on how great events enter and overpower the lives of individuals. We can never be completely sure about Lucien--Malle doesn't tell us quite enough about him and the society around him for us to be sure in our judgment...
Partly the secrecy, by the way, of the earlier period helped Kissinger make that moronic, murderous judgment. The Seaborn mission in 1964 used the same words to the same person, Pham Van Dong in the summer of 1964, namely: The U.S. will blow you to pieces if you don't stop what you're doing in South Vietnam and so forth, and call off the war. And Pham Van Dong said lots of things in reply but to the effect of, We expect you to bomb, we carried out this war eight years without Hanoi or Haiphong against the French...
Such pointed criticism of particular aspects of Federal Judge John J. Sirica's handling of the Watergate conspiracy trial has been growing. Yet most legal experts consulted by TIME correspondents consider any overall negative judgment premature. With few exceptions, they feel that the outspoken Sirica has not as yet committed any serious errors that could lead to a reversal of any convictions in the case. At worst, they contend, the judge has been guilty of making gratuitous comments that needlessly reinforce a longstanding claim by the defense that he is too personally concerned about the trial to preside impartially...
Complete Devotion. Arafat has never married. "Palestine is my wife," he once remarked, and those who know him well agree with the judgment. "It is his complete devotion," says one Palestinian friend, "24 hours a day, 30 days a month, 365 days a year. There is no stop?ever." He eats on the run, neither smokes nor drinks. He has no home to speak of; one night he will sleep in the P.L.O. office in Beirut, the next at a friend's home. Even